Shoemaker&#39;s tool



Patented Mar. 25, 1924.

PATENT oFFIcE.

FRANK KILIAN, OF HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN.

SHOEMAKER S TOOL.

Application filed August 12, 1921. Serial No. 491,777.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, FRANK KILIAN, a citizen of Poland, residing at Hamtramck, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoemakers Tools, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in shoemakers tools and has particular reference to the improvement of hand implements for performing various operations in the repairing of boots and shoes or the like.

The primary object of the invention is to so modify the construction of ordinary pliers as to provide a simplified and practical tool for performing various shoemaking operations.

Other objects will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, and the same consists of the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described shown in the accompanying drawing, and claimed.

In the drawing, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is an edge elevational view of a shoemakers tool constructed in accordance with the present invention looking toward the right. of Fig. 2; d

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 1; and

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially upon line III-III of Fig. 1.

Referring more in detail to the several views, the invention embodies a pair of handles 5 and 6 having the usual jaws 7 and 8 formed upon their outer ends and crossed and pivotally connected as at 9, whereby the pressing of the handles 5 and 6 together will cause movement of the jaws 7 and 8 toward each other for gripping purposes, the faces of the jaws 7 and 8 being preferably milled or roughened in the usual way.

The present invention contemplates the provision of auxiliary jaws upon opposite sides of the jaws 7 and 8, as at 10 and 11, so

that said jaws 10 and 11 extend laterally and will cooperate for grasping various pieces of work which are not as accessible for engagement by the jaws 7 and 8. The jaws 7 and 8 have further auxiliary jaws 12 and 13 extended from the opposite side thereof, and the jaw 12 is provided with an opening 14 so as to provide the female die of a punch, the male die 15 of which is in the nature of a sharpened pin preferably formed integral with the face of the jaw 13 in a position to enter the opening 1 1. The jaws 10 and 11 will be found serviceable in grasping various portions of a shaft in the repair and construction of the same, and the punch will be found particularly serviceable in forming holes in the leather for the introduction of pegs or the entrance of a needle in sewing.

The jaw 7 is provided with a socket in its outer edge adapted for the reception of the blunt end portion of a needle 16, and a transverse threaded opening is provided in the jaw 7 communicating with the aforesaid socket for the reception of the threaded stem of a post 17, which threaded stem is adapted to engage an annular groove 18 in the needle 16 for retaining the latter in place. The post 17 is apertured to form a guide through which the cotton or string 19 is passed, which string is adapted to be threaded through the eye of the needle 16 at which time the device may be employed for sewing with the jaws 10 to 13 inclusive grasped as handles. The thread 19 is wound upon a spool 20 and thelatter is rotatably mounted upon a transverse bolt 21 which extends through the free ends of the handles 5 and 6 and which has a nut 22 threaded thereon for holding the bolt 21 in place and for holding the handles 5 and 6 as well as the jaws 7 and 8 in their limit of movement toward each other.

The manner of use as well as the advantages of the present invention will be readily understood and appreciated by those skilled in the art from the foregoing descrijpjiion.

at is claimed as new is In a tool of the class described, a pair of crossed handles, a longitudinally extending plane gripping surface equal to their entire jaw formed integrally with each handle, and. Widths, said single plane gripping surfaces formed integrally with each of the longiarea.

5 tudinally extending jaws, each longitudi- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.-

nally extending jaw with its pair of" later i I g Y i ally extending jaws forming a flat, single FRANK K'ILIAN.

a pair of opposed laterally extending jaws being roughened, throughout their entire 1 

